I realized not too long ago that I’ve always wanted magnetic poetry. You know what I mean, don’t you? Those little white magnetic rectangles that have only one word on them, and you put them on your refrigerator (or locker or filing cabinet) and arrange and rearrange them to make poems. I had played with […]
Read moreHe’s decided that, throughout this entire school year, he’s only ever going to wear shorts. No pants, no jeans, no sweat pants. None. He’ll only wear shorts. Interestingly, he’ll wear any of the above on the weekends. No worries. In fact, he was wearing pants on Friday. I know. I saw him. This restraint, this […]
Read moreI received a belated and Most Welcome birthday gift the other day: Annie Dillard’s novel, The Maytrees. I am thrilled to get my hands on anything by Annie Dillard. Anything. Already I own copies of The Writing Life and An American Childhood, and I own them again in my Three By Annie Dillard, which includes […]
Read moreI’ve come to face the facts: for real communication on the internet, Facebook is where it’s at. This is not entirely great news for me. To me, Facebook is… Prickly. Awkward. Not entirely User Friendly, as they say. I go there and find all sorts of information that I cannot use (updates that come to […]
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This is a great holiday. Honestly. And not because of the food (although, if Bill Stevenson happens to be preparing your Thanksgiving turkey, then you are One Lucky Eater today). I just think it’s a pretty amazing thing that, as a nation, we take a day to remember to be grateful. We have So Much […]
Read moreSo no, I won’t tell you everything that’s been going on around here (see previous post), but I did recall something just now that I’ve been wanting to post here: Will and Everett have a blog. They started it this summer, not too terribly long after our brief but wonderful visit from These Wonderful People. […]
Read moreIt’s Sunday night, and it’s been a Weekend. I didn’t have much planned, which was good, and neither did Bill, which was also good, because our children had plans, and these kept us busy. Two playdates, one sleepover, one birthday party (for two people) and a middle school dance. Oh, and youth group. Yep. Busy. […]
Read moreI just posted something over here. I could, I realize, post it here, too, but I am not going to do that. So if you’d like to read it (and, by scrolling down one post) see a Very Hilarious video of my friends’ son Luke, then you must leave this blog and go to that […]
Read moreThis past week I found myself revisiting one of my favorite books, Frederick Buechner’s Godric. I’ve read it twice already, and was not disappointed to realize recently that Now would be an excellent time to use the book as an illustration in my classroom. My students and I are smack in the middle of the […]
Read moreToday, for the first time in months, I could watch the football game on the screen of my neighbor’s television in the house behind ours, the house that, for all the months of summer, is screened from us by leaves. Today Emma Grace and I went for a bike-ride/walk. She created a basket for her […]
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